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Originally Posted by MrSparkle001
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Not quite true. It can set precedent but that precedent has to be grounded in the constitution.
It became obvious to me as I read into the legal reasoning behind Roe vs Wade that it would never hold up to scrutiny. The only reason it survived for so long is because everyone was afraid to be the one to strike it down, in my opinion.
Read into it. Read into the odd "right of privacy" they used to set that precedent, which isn't even in the fourteenth amendment in the first place.
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Serious question. We have graft and grift, we’re bankrupt and can’t fund retirement for most Americans (nor healthcare). Does the fiscally Conservative party going down the path of extreme unpopularity by banning things like birth control help us as a nation?
Letter of the law I agree with you, the constitution doesn’t make birth control a rigjt. But damn man, is drinking a right? Is smoking a cigarette a right? Is having a children a right? We assume many things based on our collective conscience as a nation, and I would posit that drinking and cigarette smoking should be illegal before birth control. The constitution not being explicit on those topics doesn’t really change much.